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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"environmental governance"”.
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Institutional interplay in global environmental governance
… of international cooperation within the governance area of climate change, biodiversity, and desertification. Due to substantial environmental and political linkages, there are interrelations between the three regimes. This study seeks to examine the inter-institutional relationship …
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Towards deliberative environmental governance: Rethinking participation
… for management of the environment, deliberative governance approaches are failing to build the institutions that scholars and leaders advocate as solutions to the complex pressures. While the practice of participation has become a mandatory principle in the conduct of environmental governance, …
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Flexibility with accountability : an experiment in environmental governance
Command and control environmental regulation has been under attack from all sides for some time. In Wisconsin, the Department of Natural Resources is experimenting with an alternative form of environmental governance. This new program uses cooperative agreements to provide flexibility to firms in …
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Extending environmental governance: China's environmental state and civil society
This thesis is a study of environmental governance reform in China. It investigates how new governance policies and arrangements are being introduced in order to overcome problems associated with China’s sizable environmental protection ‘implementation deficit’. Using an analytical framework based …
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Local environmental governance: Assessing proactive initiatives in building energy efficiency
… are increasingly taking the initiative in environmental governance. But can they make any difference in addressing current environmental challenges, which are becoming more and more global in scope? This PhD thesis explores and analyses the outcomes of proactive initiatives in the field of …
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Environmental governance: urban community-driven conservation endeavors in the Cape
… part of a complex socio-ecological system, and governance is an important factor in ensuring effective decisions are made and appropriate management actions taken. Although there are clear guidelines for conservation on a national and provincial level, it is less clear for civic and urban …
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Grand Calumet: the linkages between environmental justice, vulnerability and environmental governance
The US Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Indiana have invested over $80 million to remove contaminants from the Grand Calumet River. The river cuts through a highly diverse urban and industrial area punctuated by nature preserves, with strong ties to Chicago and a bustling mix of …
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Returning the Commons: Resource Access and Environmental Governance in San Luis, Colorado
… ways that have hindered effective procedures for environmental governance, monitoring, and enforcement. Throughout the study, I advance an analysis of the ways in which socio-spatial formations are iteratively reproduced and challenged in contingent and contested ways through the governance of the …
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Making Sense of Environmental Governance: A Study of E-waste in Malaysia
The nature of e-waste, which is environmentally disastrous but economically precious, calls for close policy attention at all levels of society, and between state and non-state actors. This thesis investigates the roles of state and non-state actors in e-waste governance in Malaysia. This is …
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International environmental governance : a case for increased regulation in the carbon markets
… that any route towards re-writing past wrongs in environmental governance must include a mechanism for internalizing the social costs of emissions by the major polluters - mainly energy intensive industries and utilities companies, providing heightened financial motivation to adopt cleaner modes …
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Collaborative environmental governance in agriculture : a case-study from the Upper Breede Valley
… of this research is in the area of collaborative environmental governance, specifically analysing the Upper Breede Collaborative Extension Group (UBCEG) as an operational example of collaboration. Collaboration is one approach of governing whereby various agencies consult with one another and work …
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Casting environmental governance : the evolution of regulatory relationships in the Wisconsin foundry industry
This thesis examines the evolving shape of environmental governance using an extended case study of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, drawing on their efforts to reduce pollution in the Wisconsin foundry industry. This analysis follows the development of the Department's efforts to …
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Networked environmental governance in the European Union: who participates and (how) do they learn?
With its traditional (i.e. legislative) modes of governance coming under fire due to their perceived lack of legitimacy and effectiveness, the European Union (EU) has increasingly turned to more flexible means of policy cooperation. One example is the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), which can be …
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The outlook on the extractives upstream investment in South Africa: the environmental governance issue
… country's policy perception zooming in on the environmental governance of the extractives sector. Environmental governance in South Africa was fragmented. The fragmentation occurred in policies, institutions and, ultimately, governance. The consequences of this fragmentation were regulatory …
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Limits of justice in environmental governance: Coal ash and ethylene oxide in Waukegan, Illinois
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Political Cooperation and International Environmental Governance in the Baltic Sea Region after World War II
Today, global environmental problems have become one of the most important international issues. This Master's thesis is about international environmental and political cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region after World War II. The Baltic Sea is surrounded by nine states and the degradation of the …
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Environmental governance of sand mining in an urban setting : Macassar Dunes, Cape Town, South Africa
Sand is a resource in high demand for urban expansion and development. Sand mining operations are often located on the edges of cities. The Macassar Dunes are an important source of building sand for the City of Cape Town. The area is located within the Cape Floral Kingdom, the smallest and richest …
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Advancing the effective implementation of the one environmental system for mining through cooperative environmental governance
In 2014, the One Environmental System for mining came into effect. This legislative framework was introduced to streamline the environmental regulation of mining activities by consolidating such regulation in the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA). The most significant aspect of the …
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Investments in watershed services: understanding a new arena of environmental governance in the western United States
… intensifying land uses, and climate-induced environmental changes are stressing ecological systems in the region. My dissertation focuses on understanding this new arena of environmental governance aimed at freshwater conservation in the US West. Through three sets of data and analytical …
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